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by SALMA KULI JACOB It is small wonder that the UPNG students burnt stacks of the toiletpaper dailies AKA The National and the Post Courier.   Both of them fail miserably at objective reporting or achieving any kind of balance in giving both sides of the story.  They’re both content with recycling government verbal diarrhea into certified Post Courier or National pekpek, without  checking out the accuracy of anything they’re asked to run.   IFC Loan Approved For PNG.   Or Was It?   The Post Courier led the way in unprofessionalism on 2 May with the following story: This news comes from the Bank of PNG which we all have come to see is in collusion with Peter O’Neill.  Mind you, no nation’s central bank should ever come under political pressure, because this erodes confidence in a central bank to do what’s best for the economy, no matter what the political fallout.  Unfortunately, the big picture of making decisions usually seems to escape our leaders and top level bureau

PNGBLOGS Our country needs the active help of those who often don’t do anything more than read social media postings if we are to keep Peter O’Neill from defeating truth and justice.   In the coming weeks we the people of our land will either be jumping in the streets with pride and joy that we have defeated evil or we will feel intensely shamed for years to come by the knowledge that we were defeated not because we were wrong, but because we didn’t give the same effort as the evil people in power did. To help you take action PNGBlogs has  created a selection of papers and postings from around the internet as a guide to students and everyone else to learn more about the national crisis issues that are now reaching the point of explosion. Until all of us as PNGeans become much better educated on the issues, we will not be motivated enough to correct the problems.  Each and every one of us must learn more about the facts of the matter.   That’s why we put together this collectio

Donny Turanaka Just like happened during the various university student protests since Peter O’Neill took power, the Post Courier and The National continue giving the impression that they are 100% in back of anyone who is against the students.   They hardly report on anything happening on what is being spoken about at the university forums.  They always seems to be against the students and on the side of the oppressive government of PO.    The National is 100% owned by Rimbunan Hijau (RH).  RH made billions by bribing its way into getting former forestry ministers such as Patrick Pruaitch and Michael Oglio to give them concessions throughout the country.  They control most of PNG’s logging industry but do very little processing of logs in PNG. They ship it all overseas for processing which earns us very little foreign currency to offset our imports.   RH took its money and created The National as its propaganda mouthpiece.  RH gave Michael Somare the money he needed to fo

Unitech SRC President David Kelma by Year 4 Business Studies Student, Uni-tech Our country has suffered under years of mostly poor leadership because some of us vibrant young people who raise our hands and contest elections to become class leaders don’t have much idea what good leadership requires.  We’re looking for the power and prestige and don’t care about much else.   We’re to slack to investigate how leaders operated in places that show conspicuous rewards of good leadership.  Fact is that most candidates for student class captain or SRC president are seeking fame, women and hopefully free money.  Little else is of interest, not when they are class president, and not when they become an MP or Minister.  As far as what we want to do once we are elected, most of us think all we have to do is promise the voters to do whatever they want us to do, then lie as much as necessary to fool people into thinking we know what we’re doing.   Most of us young leaders are ignorant abou

Unitech Students Vote Righteousness Over Ipatas and Tabar Self Serving Intimidation Overwhelming 87% Vote In Favour Of Boycott. PAU and Divine Word Students Sit Back And Let Other Students Do All the Fighting for A Better Future for PNG. By Wilfred Dama After a worrisome delay, unitech students finally stood up with courage like the way their predecessors did in 2014 to defeat the corrupt Peter O’Neill to bring back a noncorrupt Vice Chancellor.   The final vote was over 87% to proceed with a boycott. Final tally was 2,059 supporting an immediate boycott and 296 voting against.    Thank God Amighty Unitech students have now finished their wishy washy and firmly joined UPNG and UNRE in standing up in a unified way with the government.    The fight of good against evil has gained thousands of new soldiers.   UNIVERSITY OF GOROKA STUDENTS WHERE ARE YOU?     We wonder why the UOG students, who were the heroes last year in deposing their uncaring and corrupt administration, h

by Retired Educator, UPNG It is an open secret that the current government has been destructive of the PNG education system from top to bottom.      New planned institutions are using money that should be used to prevent the collapse of existing institutions.    PNG university graduates are suffering because government not only doesn’t seem to care about them, but is undermining their future without the students realizing it.   This article provides facts to back up these statements.   Community and High School Education Today in PNG The Free Education policy of Prime Minister O’Neill has been excellent in providing contracts to his friends and allies to build overpriced classrooms and make other, often noncritical school infrastructural improvements.   However, you will not find one library in the country that has received any significant funding to purchase books under the O’Neill government.   Today classrooms around the country are stuffed with students, but never